--- title: The witch at once recognised them by their smell, and ground her tee… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The witch at once recognised them by their smell, and ground her teeth with anger; but she hid her feelings, and, pretending to be very kind she called them to her and joked with them, and led them into a beautiful room, where she gave them food to eat, and showed them a soft cushion on which they m --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The White Duck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/) / 28 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 28 The witch at once recognised them by their smell, and ground her teeth with anger; but she hid her feelings, and, pretending to be very kind she called them to her and joked with them, and led them into a beautiful room, where she gave them food to eat, and showed them a soft cushion on which they might sleep. **Who acts:** witch, creatures · **What happens:** recognise, hide, pretend, be, call, joke · **To what, where:** creatures, feelings, mother, beautiful room, food, soft cushion · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, creatures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:29:28 # text = The witch at once recognised them by their smell, and ground her teeth with anger; but she hid her feelings, and, pretending to be very kind she called them to her and joked with them, and led them into a beautiful room, where she gave them food to eat, and showed them a soft cushion on which they might sleep. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 obl _ _ 5 recognised recognise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 joked joke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 into into ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 51 advmod _ _ 50 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 acl:relcl _ _ 52 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 iobj _ _ 53 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 59 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 obj _ _ 60 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 61 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 cushion cushion NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 63 on on ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 67 obl _ _ 65 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ _ 66 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 67 aux _ _ 67 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recognise** | past | the witch | creatures *= creature* | | | | by creatures's smell; witch's ground teeth with anger *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 2 | **hide** | past | witch | witch's feelings | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | | 3 | **pretend** | gerund | witch *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | witch *not said here* | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | past | witch | creatures *= creature* | mother | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to she=Recipient | | 6 | **joke** *speech: other* | past | witch *not said here* | | | | | with creatures *= creature* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | | 7 | **lead** | past | the witch *not said here* | creatures *= creature* | | a beautiful room | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into room=Destination | | 8 | **give** | past | witch | food | creatures *= creature* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme | | 9 | **eat** | to-infinitive | witch *not said here* | food *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **show** | past | the witch *not said here* | creatures *= creature* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient cushion=Topic | | 11 | **sleep** | might | creatures *= creature* | | | a soft cushion | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **smell** | | creatures *= creature* | | | | | | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/29/) - ↑ back to [The White Duck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/)